Editing Yangon (section)

===Media===

Yangon is the country's hub for the movie, music, advertising, newspaper, and book publishing industries, and is the country's cultural center. All media is heavily regulated by the military government. Television broadcasting is off-limits to the private sector. All media content must first be approved by the government's media censor board, [[Press Scrutiny and Registration Division]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10648 |title=Burma: The Censored Land |date=1 March 2008 |author=Yeni |magazine=The Irrawaddy |access-date=20 March 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311223612/http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=10648 |archive-date=11 March 2008 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Most television channels in the country are broadcast from Yangon. [[MRTV (TV network)|MRTV]] and [[Myawaddy TV]] are the two main channels, providing Burmese-language news and entertainment programs. Other special interest channels are MWD-1 and MWD-2, [[Myanmar International|MITV]], the English-language channel that targets overseas audiences via satellite and via internet, [[MRTV-4]] and Channel 7 (Yangon) are with a focus on non-formal education programs and movies, and Movie 5, a pay-TV channel specializing in broadcasting foreign movies.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Digital television take-up slower than expected |url=http://www.mmtimes.com/no429/b004.htm |date=3 August 2008 |author=Kyaw Hsu Mon |work=The Myanmar Times |access-date=8 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430045926/http://www.mmtimes.com/no429/b004.htm |archive-date=30 April 2011 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Yangon has three radio stations. [[Myanmar Radio]] is the national radio service and broadcasts mostly in Burmese and in English during specific times. Pop culture-oriented [[Yangon City FM]] and [[Mandalay City FM]] radio stations specialize in Burmese and English pop music, entertainment programs, live celebrity interviews, etc. New radio channels such as Shwe FM and Pyinsawaddy FM can also be tuned with the city area.

Nearly all print media and industries are based out of Yangon. All three national newspapers – two Burmese language dailies ''[[The New Light of Myanmar|Myanma Alin]]'' ({{lang|my|မြန်မာ့အလင်း}}) and ''[[Kyemon]]'' ({{lang|my|ကြေးမုံ}}), and the English language ''[[The New Light of Myanmar]]'' – are published by the government. Semi-governmental ''[[The Myanmar Times]]'' weekly, published in Burmese and in English, is mainly geared for Yangon's expatriate community. There are over 20 special interest journals and magazines covering sports, fashion, finance, crime, and literature (but never politics).

Access to foreign media is extremely difficult. Satellite television in Yangon, and in Burma, is very expensive as the government imposes an annual registration fee of [[burmese kyat|Ks.]]10,00,000/-, equivalent to around U$600/year.<ref name="autogenerated1"/> Certain foreign newspapers and periodicals such as the ''[[Straits Times]]'' can be found only in a few (mostly downtown) bookstores. Internet access in Yangon, which has the best telecommunication infrastructure in the country, is slow and erratic at best, and the Burmese government implements one of the world's most restrictive regimes of internet control.<ref name="oni">{{cite web |url=http://opennet.net/studies/burma |title=Internet Filtering in Burma in 2005: A Country Study |date=1 October 2005 |access-date=29 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905203458/http://www.opennet.net/studies/burma/ |archive-date=5 September 2008 }}</ref> International text messaging and voice messaging was permitted only in August 2008.<ref name="sms">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=13962 |title=International Text Messaging Approved in Burma |author=Min Lwin |date=21 August 2008 |magazine=The Irrawaddy |access-date=30 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811233000/http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=13962 |archive-date=11 August 2010 |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

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